ACM Digital Library

Using ACM Digital Library

This database contains tables of contents, abstracts, reviews and the full-text for articles published in the ACM (Association of Computing Machinery) periodicals and proceedings since 1985. Full-text is not yet available for every proceeding article published before 1991. The full-text of ACM Special Interest Groups (SIGs) publications are also available. SIGs, which operate as semiautonomous bodies within ACM, have been formed to address such specialized subject areas as Computer Graphics, Computers and Society, Programming Languages, Operating Systems and a host of other subject areas in computer science and information science.

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SEARCHING

This database gives you the option to search all the records or browse by journals, magazines, transactions, proceedings, newsletters, publications by Affiliated Organization, or Special Interest Groups.

LIMITING
You can limit a search using the advance search option by including additional information in the search.

Advanced Search can be access by clicking the Advanced Search below the search box.

Within the Desired Results section of the Advanced Search, you may choose to search for all words, any words, or none of the words by typing your terms into the three boxes.

Select in which fields you would like the database to search: Title, Abstract, Review , or All Information by clicking in the boxex below the Desired Results boxes. You may click in the box of more than one field to search.

If you know the author, type in the name in one of the boxes under Name or Affiliation and select Authored from the option in the pulldown menu. You may also select if the database should search for all (default), any, or none of the terms by clicking in the circles above each search term box..

Click the Search button at the bottom of the screen which will open a new browser window containing your results..

Results

VIEWING

After your search is performed, you are placed at the top of a list of citations. You may sort the list by date by clicking on the Publication Date in the Order by option list. By default the list is sorted by Relevance scale.

Click on the title of a document to see further information on the document, including the source information, abstract, index terms, and other information when available.

To view the full text of the document, you must click on the PDF icon next to the words full text. The number to the right of the PDF icon, gives the size of the document. As these items are available in PDF format, you must have Adobe Acrobat install on you computer. See instructions for Adobe Acrobat installation below.

GETTING ADOBE ACROBAT

Go to the Adobe website at http://www.adobe.com.

Scroll down the page and click on the Get Acrobat Reader button.

Complete Steps 1 and 2 and Click on the download button in Step 3.

PRINTING

While you are viewing the document, click the Adobe Acrobat Print button (looks like a printer) located at the top of the screen.

Document in Adobe Acrobat

DOWNLOADING

1. To save records to a disk, click on the Adobe Acrobat Save button (looks like a disk) located at the top of the screen. You will need Adobe Acrobat to open and read the file.
2. Select the a:/ drive. Give your file a name ending in .pdf. Click OK.

NOTE: Some of the documents may be too large to download successfully to a 3 ¼” disk. These items are full image files scanned from the original microfiche.

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